Living Memories--a Memoir

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>I want to leave something of my innermost self writes Nellie Gail Moulton and to particularly remember the true Pioneer Spirit that distinguished your ancestors and how each helped bring about step by strange miraculous fantastic preposterous step the position our family holds today. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>In a charming flamboyant style Nellie tells of crossing Kansas in a covered wagon and being stopped by bandits; of becoming an accountant school teacher and principal and giving it up for love; of studying en plein air painting with the California masters; of managing a 22000-acre cattle ranch and of founding the Laguna Playhouse and Laguna College of Art and Design. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>For there is one thing I believe will never fade into oblivion - beauty in literature painting music the drama - no matter how some will agitate for whatever motive to bring true talent to ridicule...</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Only recently discovered in the family archives </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Living Memories</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)> is illustrated by dozens of never-before-seen photos from the Moulton family and Moulton Museum.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>This enthralling historical timepiece by Moulton-rescued from obscurity and edited by her great-grandson Scott T. Barnes-preserves the legacy of a 'true pioneer' a woman whose adventures included trundling across the plains in a covered wagon and spanned decades of revolution daring ventures and lasting human connection. ~ </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>BookLife</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)> by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Publishers Weekly</em></p><p></p>